dagblog - Comments for "The Real Need for Beauty" http://dagblog.com/arts/real-need-beauty-11944 Comments for "The Real Need for Beauty" en I have in the past and I http://dagblog.com/comment/138098#comment-138098 <a id="comment-138098"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/arts/real-need-beauty-11944">The Real Need for Beauty</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>I have in the past and I still do marvel at the cave paintings. 13,000 years, 20,000 years, 40,000 years in the making.</p> <p>Oh and I found an article on a most recent find in the Middle East I think, of the first evidence that Homo Sapiens was manufacturing dyes; 100,000 years ago! They found the ocher as well as the grinding tools. (Adam has been translated as clay and ocher.)</p> <p>I love your pix as usual. There are marvelous colors up in this area also and we are experiencing nights in the 20's already. High of 46 today.</p> <p>Both experiences; that is nature in the now and those magnificent cave paintings found on all but one of our continents have quite an effect on my outlook at times.</p> <p>When I ponder the now as well as the art of the ancients I know that Human beings have souls.</p> <p>Joseph Campbell tells us that enternity exists in the moment.</p> <p>Now this might be all some trick of our emotional make up; but I truly feel I can comprehend the Eternal Soul! Not all the time of course, but only when I am open to that sometimes elusive feeling.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:08:33 +0000 Richard Day comment 138098 at http://dagblog.com